Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Deep-rooted within the company’s DNA is the idea that access to and ability to transform information is a fundamentally important pillar of society. BlazingDB is the third in this series, after RackN and Appbase.

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Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. The First Taste Engine. Jinni is a Taste Engine. . – get your free ticket while they last: Israel and UK Digital Drinks.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

After all, we’re tribal creatures — our opinions are infectious (for better and for worse) — so how do we convey vs. convince, and not necessarily agree but inform to decide? Please be sure to read a16z.com/disclosures for more important information. But that’s not the way that our brains process information.

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San Antonio Aggregator Jordan Stock 36

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

My macro goal is to make you dangerously informed. The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column. From a Venn -diagram.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. New York ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

Since then, I’ve chatted with many of you who share the desire to democratize access to information on startups and bring transparency to what’s been a traditionally private ecosystem. Others are looking for baseline information on operational expenses (i.e. Some of you want high-level KPI data (i.e. 1: Privately held financial.

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Aggregator Startup Vertical SEC 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. Roll that out to your entire portfolio (or to a subset as a controlled experiment) and measure conversion improvements.

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Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Everything you needed to find information about startups. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Rovi API has everything you need for information. Generate album/movie information on the fly! t need persistant information. Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. But thatâ??s

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. Local information, “snacky” entertainment, music, games have all been killer apps on smartphones. A Lightspeed Portfolio company. The most popular genres of app fit well with this “on the go” usecase.

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Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 113

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

and suddenly your voices/words will have 10x more confidence informed by real-world usage. The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. Learn how to use this metric to drive those two changes: marketing portfolio – people thinking. Awesome, right? Take a break. It is painful.

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Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. Unlike traditional FLASH we can put 4 bits of information in a single cell, and we produce memory product in sizes optimized for content distribution, creating the LOWERS cost content mobile Content distribution medium available today.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. Portfolio. (3).

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Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

HiPPO's bonus measurement metric (you will never succeed unless you are trying to get the person on top promoted or a higher bonus, keep very closely informed as to how they get paid, find insights that solve for that, you will have eternal love and a data driven org). All of the above happens all the time to every website.

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Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. Socialcast – Private online communities of all sizes to help organize enterprise communication that allows employees to decide how to find and use information while reducing email clutter and unproductive communications.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

During the years I’ve been doing impact investing I’ve felt quite lonely and frustrated that there wasn’t enough information and a real community that spoke our language,” she says. “I I believe that if we don’t get tech into SDGs right now we’ll never make it by 2030. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?

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Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." All standard reports are simply the vendor engineer's attempt to showcase the data in the tool. All data in aggregate is crap.

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Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

SA : I think we've seen a handful of companies now tell their engineers that if you want to take paid time off to go work on a software project related to COVID. ER : Do you mind talking a little bit about your conversations with startups in your portfolio, people who have reached out to you for advice about how to handle a crisis like this?

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

In addition, Cellguide’s GPSense engine is chip agnostic and could use pseudo- ranges from any GNSS receiver thus creating a fully featured locaiton and navigation engine. Cellint provides the best road traffic information service world wide. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

When I search for "avinash" on Google I might rank #1 in the search results because I'm logged into my Google account, the engine has my search history, my computer IP address, it also has searches by others in my vicinity, local stories right now, and so many other signals. But of course there are many others. REDUCE MY CPC!

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Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. If you’ve read this far, you definitely should : Try out our Funding Recommendation Engine. Company: Home Portfolio. It’s free.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

We practice it religiously in the engineering team at HubSpot and the insights are always there, highly valuable. Peter Cohen www.saasmarketingstrategy.com David Skok Peter, this is a great point, and one which has led to many long discussions with my portfolio companies. David Skok Great feedback and suggestions.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

In that context, Real-Time reports are an impressive feat of engineering by the team at Google. It seems to show the same information as the above two reports. This give you an informed starting point. For example, custom reports for search engine optimization. You can see what's happening right now.

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Analytics Web eCommerce Metrics 60

Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

The first source of the data are the logs that store the queries that are done by users on google.com (logs that have this data in aggregate, not by individual histories – you'll see the latter is not necessary). Maximize for the portfolio. #3: You can't. Or you'll never go home. Notice the irony in that? :).

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Search PPC Matching Analytics 103